#OLE init fails!?
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I got Quicktime completely installed on my PC and when I tried to run it I got
an error message to the effect Quicktime OLE Initialization Failed. Any help
for this?
Best regards,
Leon Malinofsky
Yikes. Leon, let's track the process a bit and see if we can help you.
* Did you install from floppy disk or hard drive?
* Where did you get the QT4W files from (online, friend, elsewhere)?
* Did you exit Windows and restart? Reboot your computer? Sometimes either of
these is needed depending on the complexity of the install.
I'll try and review messages this weekend to see what your responses are.
Thanks, Matt!
1. Installed from floppy disks following precisely the instructions in the
README file.
2. Downloaded QT111W.ZIP (I think that's the file name) from some site on
the Net to which I was taken via a hyperlink from Today's Cool Site
(which turned out to be Buena Vista Pictures). (I run Mosaic and
Mosaic Netscape.)
3. Yes, I both exited Windows and restarted; then I rebooted. Then I
took a look at AUTOEXEC.BAT to make sure QTW/BIN was in the path.
Then I made sure the subdirectories were all properly created on disk.
Then I used some bad language! <g>
4. My registration editor has not recently worked right, despite my
having re-expanded it to hard disk from the original Windows floppies.
That, or something, used to cause "failed to register OLE server"
error messages when starting up Paintbrush, and "An error occurred
while attempting to register WordPerfect with the registration
database" from WordPerfect 6.0a. Not sure how I fixed these but
they don'
t happen any more, but regedit still can't save its changes. As
I mentioned, I have rebuilt the registration database many times
before and reinstalled regedit several times to no avail.
Any help GRATEFULLY appreciated!
Leon
Leon,
I'll research the process, try it on my machine and let you know what I
discover.
Thanks!
Matt, I've been having the worst time in years at my PC trying to get
Quicktime movies running. You know about the problem I had with the
Apple version. I tried Eview.exe from the EDRIVE forum (see my
message to Tim Hitchings; it runs but won't recognize movies as
movies, saying "Unable to run movie– most QT videos end in .mov" –
of course the files I was trying DID end in .mov) with no luck. Maybe
because I had to manually expand the files after SETUP failed to
run? Then I tried VIDVUE, the new version that supposedly handles
QT, and when I got it unzipped and tried to run SETUP, it asked me if
I was registered or shareware, to which directory to install the
files, and when I told it and clicked "continue" it said "setup
failed- Illegal function call– Run Setup at a later time". As you
say, Y I K E S ! ! ! What's going on??? I am a reasonably adept
user, got Mosaic, Netscape and Cello running on my 486-box including
all of the MPEG and JPEG and WAV accessories, but darn it, Quicktime
has defeated me. Any ideas?
Best regards,
Leon Malinofsky
Leon,
Personally, I'm still trying to get a handle on QT myself. The installation on
my machine went flawlessly, and I'm trying to nail down specifics on a few
problems, including your message of the 28th.
If there's any QT experts hanging out in the forum, please speak up. We may
have a place for you on staff. <g>
Thanks, Matt! If you read my subsequent messages and exchanges with others,
you know how the problem extends beyond just the apple implementation. If you
find anything out, I'd be grateful to hear it. Tim Hitchings actually *wrote*
eview, so he's *got* to be an expert. As you read, probably, he hangs out in
EFORUM mostly, though. It seems.
Thanks!
Leon Malinofsky
Matt, I got Adobe Premiere which can play QT movies. Never tired the
player only that is online on CIS somewhere. Premiere is a great tool
and worth the money. I got it bundled with a video capture card.
-David
David,
I'll pass word along about Premiere. We're testing the Intel Smart Video
Recorder and the ATI VideoIT packages, and finding strengths and faults in
each. Another program can't hurt. <g>
IMHO the Intel Smart Recoder is not smart at all and slow. Check out
DC1tv from miro. It does real 30 fps at at least 320×240 (higher in
PAL mode, dunno about NTSC mode, but the card can do both). And
Premiere comes bundeled with it for only $200 extra. -David
Hi Matt,
Best resource I know of for QTW installation and play is Bob Currier's
documentation in one of the libraries of the Macintosh Multimedia Forum (GO
MACMEDIA). If my memory's not *too* flaky it's called QTWDOC.TXT.
fwiw, QTW 2.0 is due RSN and is said to have an easier installation process…
QTW 1.1.1 used disk images and the directory structure needed to be unzipped
intact. I'm hoping that 2.0 will make things a lot cleaner, as well as offering
that dramatic performance boost for new videos.
One of the frequent issues in MACMEDIA on QTW is playing downloaded QT
videos. Files produced on the Mac need to be "flattened" into a
single-fork file for playback on PCs. Not all uploaded videos in the
various CIS libraries are so enabled for PC playback, but newer
uploads tend to be platform-independent.
Hope this helps… holler if, okay? <g>
Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Tech Support
John,
Thanks for the excellent input. We hammered out the flattening issue a few
months ago in CORNER, and are looking at enhancing QT support in our video
forums in coming weeks.
>>hammered out the flattening issue<<
<G>
So are there DOS tools that can do it, or does it still need to be done at the
Mac end?
Dan,
At this point, flattening must still be done on the Mac.